Compare 1587 edition: 1 At the firſte there was no greate aduauntage perceyued on eyther ſide, the kings, according to the dueties of valiant Captaines, exhorting their people to ſticke to it manfully: but in the meane time certaine bandes of Egfredes parte getting themſelues to the ſide of an hill, gaue the looking on without comming downe at all to ayde theyr frendes: whiche maner the reſidue of his people perceyuing, doubted of ſome treaſon deuiſed agaynſt them, and therevpon began to ſhrinke backe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Egfred aduiſed thereof, came amongſt the foremoſt rankes of his batayle, deſiring the En|gliſhmen in no wiſe to giue place to theyr eni|mies: and for that dayes ſeruice hee promiſed them highe rewardes, and all the pleaſure that afterwarde hee might be any wayes forth able to ſhew them.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But whileſt he was thus buſilie occupied in comforting & exhorting his men to fight ſtout|ly,King Egfred ſlayne. See more hereof in En|gland. he himſelf chaunced to be wounded in the face with an arrow, ſo ſore, that immediatly he fell downe and died in the place.